The 'Alliance Against Nice' is made up of the following groups:

The Socialist Party / The Green Party / Sinn Fein / Seamus Healy TD / Tipperary Workers and Unemployed Action Group / The Workers Party / Socialist Workers Party / Irish Socialist Newtwork / Independent Socialist Forum Against Nice / Tony Gregory TD / Finnian McGrath TD / Mick O'Reilly (ATGWU)

What Nice Really Means for Ordinary People

• Nice establishes the command structure for a new European army called the Rapid Reaction Force.
  
  
• It establishes direct links between an EU military structure and NATO and calls for a European wide arms industry.
  
  
• Government pledges on Irish neutrality mean nothing. The government reneged on promises for a referendum on the so-called 'Partnership for Peace' (PfP) and are allowing the US military to use Shannon airport in the run up to a military strike on Iraq.
  
  
• Nice calls for "uniformity in measures of liberalisation" and entry into the World Trade Organisation's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and TRIPS agreements. This means the privatisation of public services across Europe and a Europe dominated by multinational companies.
• Nice will concentrate power in the hands of big states and further remove control of the EU from ordinary people. Bigger states suchs as Germany, France, Italy and Britain will increase their voting power over other states.